Words.. Uniting or Dividing?

Writing is what I do, it is who I am, and it is the very nature of my soul - my inner being.  I use words every day of my life.  I have come to love and appreciate words, but I have also learned quite a bit about words.


Words are simply the tool that a writer will attempt to use to describe feelings and emotions to express to the reader, listener or intended audience, the thoughts and emotions within the soul that the writer wishes to convey.

Words are meaningful in life for more than writers, however.  People use words every single day.  Words can be uplifting, healing, helpful, kind, caring, and sweet, perfect for the moment, and words can also be very damaging.

In my life I have witnessed many instances where people, including myself, don't stop and think before they speak.  The thing about words is that once they are spoken, they have been put out there into the World and they can't be taken back. 


Sometimes we people would like to think that an apology will wipe away the things we wish never came out of our mouths, but the reality is once spoken, words have been given life and any potential damage has already been done.

When I was a child in elementary school I had a teacher that taught us little children a poem that went something like this:....
"Sticks and stones may break my bones but words will never hurt me."

This is probably this biggest untruth told to all of us in life, and most of us already know this.  Words, especially negative, mean and purposely hurtful words are damaging to others.  There is no realistic justification for utilizing hurtful words against another human being simply because we can. 


There has definitely been a time in our live's when we have been on the receiving end of hurtful words, and I would encourage anyone, all of us - self included here -  who has experienced this pain to stop and remember those moments before preparing to use words to hurt or wound another.

In the animated film, Bambi, the character Thumper states that his mother always told him, "If you have nothing nice to say, say nothing at all."  These are words to live by, and bless the writer who chose to put this statement out into the World for us to hear.

Life is full of pain on so many different levels.  Just turn on the evening news and you will find pain and suffering all around the World.  In our tiny circles of life, the places where we group together to socialize, to congregate, to hang out together, to work together is where we can start!


In all of these smaller circles of social settings we can truly make a difference by allowing our example of how we want the World to be a better place, simply by and through the use of our words.  Negativity breeds negativity, where positivity breeds positivity - or rather kindness breeds more kindness. 


All of this requires the use of words, and it is up to us which words we will choose in order to bring out the desired outcome in our surroundings.

Words will write and sell a novel,

Words will write and sing a song,

Words will unlock hidden mysteries,

Words will help some get along,

Sometimes words can wound and hurt,

Words can cut the heart just like a knife,

Once stated you can't take them back,

Words once spoken now have life!

Words truly are a gift in this World,

Our words are ours to use forever,

Shouldn't it be time to see that our words are uniting?

Isn't it time to use our words to bring us all together?

Let our words that we speak today be the words that we are proud to have our children repeat tomorrow, in our honor. 




Sandra Bonadonna
Zonepolitical
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